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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, a.
     Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. --
     {Stam"mer*ing*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Stammering \Stam"mer*ing\, n. (Physiol.)
     A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due
     essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the
     diaphragm, by which expiration is prevented, and hence it may
     be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stammer \Stam"mer\ (st[a^]m"m[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
     {Stammered} (-m[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Stammering}.] [OE.
     stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. &
     LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal[=o]n,
     stamm[=e]n, Dan. stamme, Sw. stamma, Icel. stama, stamma,
     OHG. & Dan. stam stammering, Icel. stamr, Goth. stamms, and
     to G. stemmen to bear against, stumm dumb, D. stom. Cf.
     {Stem} to resist, {Stumble}.]
     To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to
     hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and
     difficulty; to stutter.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour
           this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out
           of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or
           none at all.                             --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stammering
       adj : unable to speak freely and easily [syn: {stammering(a)}, {stuttering(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "stammering":
     balbutient, balbuties, bashful, bashfulness, battology, confused,
     confusion, conscious, coy, coyness, demure, demureness, demurity,
     dysphemia, embarrassment, expletive, faltering, filling, halting,
     hesitating, hesitation, inarticulate, macrology, mousiness, mousy,
     padding, palilalia, pleonasm, redundancy, self-conscious,
     self-consciousness, shamefaced, shamefacedness, shamefast,
     shamefastness, shy, shyness, skittish, skittishness, stagefright,
     stammer, stumbling, stutter, stuttering, tautologism, tautology,
     timid, timidity, timidness, timorous, timorousness, traulism
  
  

















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